A CHINESE ARCHAISTIC CELADON GROUND GILT DECORATED VASE
Based on Western Zhou period bronzes, with a pear-shaped body supported on a slightly splayed foot and rising gently to the waisted neck and flared lipped mouth, flanked by a pair of moulded mythical animal masks suspending mock-ring handles, applied overall with a pale caesious green glaze and painted in gilt, the body with confronting dragons forming interlocking 'S' design interspersed with bat-like clouds, between a lappet band skirting the foot and ruyi and classic scroll bands below a broad stylised toatie-masks encircling the neck, the mouth with lappets pendant from a key-fret border. With an underglaze blue six-character Qianlong mark.

Origin: China

Period: 19th-20th century

Sizes: 36.50 cm. H
14.37 in. H